Robert Bien William Frost Associates

A $772,000 contract for badly needed improvements at the Crown Valley Parkway freeway interchange was awarded to Robert Bien William Frost & Associates by the City Council this week. The contract, awarded Monday, will pay for design work on a newly configured ramp system for one of the area's busiest surface streets. The project will mainly consist of street widenings and will also add extra lanes.

A $772,000 contract for badly needed improvements at the Crown Valley Parkway freeway interchange was awarded to Robert Bien William Frost & Associates by the City Council this week. The contract, awarded Monday, will pay for design work on a newly configured ramp system for one of the area's busiest surface streets. The project will mainly consist of street widenings and will also add extra lanes.

Orange County's road builders and designers suffering from the current slowdown in new housing development are hoping that Measure M, which will pump $3.1 billion into county transportation projects in the next 20 years, will revive their business. "We are hoping the money will become available real quick," said Robert Holland, general manager of Sully-Miller, a Long Beach-based road builder with an office in Orange. Holland said his firm was once very busy doing work on Irvine Co.